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We want people to feel challenged by the work and energized by the team around them.\nWhat You'll Do\nApplies and integrates advanced statistical, mathematical, data mining, predictive modeling and business analysis skills and techniques to discover and identify new insights, predict and prescribe outcomes, advise on turning new insights into actionable opportunities and outcomes, and provide the tracking and measurement of results.\nDevelop LLM-based, mathematical models, algorithms, machine learning techniques, and robust analytics to support analytic insights and visualization of complex data sets for productization and monetization.\nCreate evaluation frameworks and monitor deployed models and AI systems for performance, drift and unintended outcomes.\nApplies creative problem solving and inter-departmental networking to address data and information needs across the enterprise.\nShares best practices with peers through coaching and mentoring core methodologies, patterns, standards and processes.\nThrough a clear understanding of the assigned business area, utilizes technical skills to access and extract data from diverse sources residing on multiple platforms and implement large, complex data models and information solutions by combining, synthesizing and structuring data from various data sources.\nWhat You'll Bring to the Role\nProficiency in Python and SQL; experience with common ML libraries (e.g. scikit-learn) and cloud data platforms (e.g. databricks)\nExperience with agentic engineering: designing agents and multi-agent workflows, including tool integration, orchestration, guardrails and human-in-the-loop checkpoints\nUnderstanding of context engineering. 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